The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to battle antisemitism, has scrubbed its website of information about a former intern who removed posters from the New York University (NYU) campus about Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.
Earlier this week, Yazmeen Deyhimi, a junior at NYU, was one of several students “who brazenly ripped down posters of Israeli hostages,” according to the New York Post. Deyhimi participated in this despite previously working as an intern for the ADL, an organization that hailed her as an activist “extremely passionate about fighting racial profiling.” After her actions went viral on social media, Deyhimi semi-apologized on Instagram in a now-deleted post:
I have found it increasingly difficult to know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these highly volatile times,” she wrote. “I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in, and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I am as a person.
“In this age of social media and digital footprint, these moments of anger are selfish and self-absorbed, and not reflective of who I am as a person or who my family had raised me to be,” she added.
Deyhimi did say that she does not support terrorism and that she hopes the Israeli hostages safely return home. Per the New York Post, her LinkedIn profile labels her as “an advocate against Muslim bigotry” who “spent a summer working with the ADL as a CSC education intern when she was just 15 years old.”